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Productive Efficiency and Contestable Markets

This paper provides a new game theoretic model consistent with the premises of contestable markets. Two firms repeatedly compete for a natural monopoly position. The limit price of the incumbent is disciplined by a hit and run strategy of the entrant. In this model, contrarily to the well known Maskin and Tirole model (1988): i) productive efficiency is encouraged, the more efficient firm gets ...

Deregulation and the Theory of Contestable Markets

Contestable Leaderships: Party Discipline and Vote Buying in Legislatures.∗

This paper examines the institutional determinants of discipline in legislative parties. The model formalizes the tradeoff between resources at the leaders discretion, and the incumbents need to maintain a minimum level of support to continue leading. The value of the incumbent leader’s promises of future benefits is here endogenously determined by the backbenchers’ beliefs about the extent of ...

Some core contested concepts.

Core concepts of language are highly contested. In some cases this is legitimate: real empirical and conceptual issues arise. In other cases, it seems that controversies are based on misunderstanding. A number of crucial cases are reviewed, and an approach to language is outlined that appears to have strong conceptual and empirical motivation, and to lead to conclusions about a number of signif...

Contested Cumulations:

The treatment of cancer through the twentieth century may be seen as the successive addition of modalities: first surgery; then radiotherapy, especially between the world wars; and then chemotherapy, from the 1960s. This paper explores some of the systematic differences between the modalities, and how these additions were negotiated in different countries, with different long-term consequences ...